If Jim Allister didn’t exist, would we have to invent him so we’d know what a really right-wing politician looked and sounded like? He was holding forth yesterday on his position regarding Britain doing a BREXIT – leaving the EU- and he was passionate in his insistence that this would be a Good Thing. It […]
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That handshake vs locking yourself in the past and swallowing the key
Picture by odcat1 I was on the Nolan Show this morning, with Jim Allister and Ruth Dudley Edwards. The topic, of course, was the upcoming handshake of Gerry Adams with Prince Charles in Galway, as the Windsor One heads for Mullaghmore and the site of his great-uncle’s killing. Jim, predictably, found a lot to […]
OTRs and threats to the integrity of the justice system
I was driving home from a funeral today so I caught most of Radio Ulster/Raidio Uladh’s Talkback. Unusually, it appeared to have just one topic of discussion: the report of the Northern Ireland Parliamentary Committee on Tony Blair’s on-the-runs scheme. There was much talk of the decision by the police to issue letters to 200 […]